Evelyn Gracie
Evelyn graduated with a BA in photography in Scotland in 2015 where she trained in fine art, analogue and documentary photography. Her work reconnects the human body to wider themes of the environment, creating metaphorical landscapes and tactile surfaces that evoke memory and emotion.
She has an established commercial background in sustainable fashion and environmental projects which has profoundly impacted her fine art practice. Photographic chemicals are her form of painterly expression, layered onto raw materials that create a sensory connection with the natural world.
Enquiries: kontakt@evelyngracie.de
The artist has an imperative to generate discourse regardless of etiquette and algorithms. In this vein, my work spans an array of digital, painted, analogue and sculptural forms - each chosen as the most appropriate medium for the social and environmental issues communicated.
My artistic practice is a commitment to create tangible narratives which bring those experiencing it to see themselves as active participators. I use somatic elements, like the smell of chemicals and seawater from prints, to textural qualities of rock and dirt to trigger olfactory and sensory memories, encouraging others to see and feel themselves as a part of the histories and ecologies portrayed. The viewer is more than an oberver looking from the outside at abstract topics. The earth and the epochs become equal standing characters.
Painting is a form of somatic, wordless thinking, a synaesthetic means of dancing through colour and intuitive movement. In process, it is entirely personal and art for the artist. Much like literature, though, once an entity leaves the creator, it is free to take on all kinds of interpretations - outwith the control of the artist. New meanings are born from new contexts and in the eyes of a beholder with entirely different life experiences and perspectives.
Artist Statement
Time, Pressure, Alchemy (Series 2025 - 2026)
2015 BA Photography, Edinburgh College / University of Abertay
2014 DeVinci Exchange Program, Fine Art Photography, Paris
2007 Edinburgh College, Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
Environmental documentary, Malindi & Watamu Fishing and Marine Associations, Kenya, 2021
Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, 2015–2017
Group Exhibition, Brick Lane, London, 2015
Sustainable fashion initiatives, Melissa Villevielle & GUCFS Glasgow
Greencat Renewables, green energy development, 2018
Based in Berlin. Previously worked and exhibited in Edinburgh, London, Paris, and Kenya.
Exhibition & Projects
Currents I (2026)
Cyanotype on Handmade Cotton Paper
In both analogue and digital fine art commissions, I have worked with composers, performance artists and musicians, drawing influence from shadow psychology, parts integration and somatic practices.
The material imperfections of alternative processes are embraced to reflect the unpredictable complexity of human lived experience. This work reveals the often concealed aspects of the self that exist beneath the idealised individual.
Earlier Work
Precious - Wet Plate Collodion on Glass (2019)